Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer was a American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Louisiana. Kohlmeyer took up painting in her thirties and achieved wide recognition for her work in art museums and galleries throughout the United States. exhibited her first paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA; then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art) in the Fifty-Fourth Annual Spring Exhibition. She graduated from Newcomb College at age 44 in 1956.

Kohlmeyer’s work is held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Ms. Kohlmeyer, a member of the Reform Jewish movement, played an active role in the New Orleans Jewish community throughout her life. Touro Synagogue in New Orleans displays much of her artwork in their synagogue and in the social hall.